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Understanding the Differences Between Data Lakes and Data Warehouses

Smart Data Collective

Data lakes and data warehouses are probably the two most widely used structures for storing data. Data Warehouses and Data Lakes in a Nutshell. A data warehouse is used as a central storage space for large amounts of structured data coming from various sources. Key Differences.

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Enable Multi-AZ deployments for your Amazon Redshift data warehouse

AWS Big Data

Amazon Redshift is a fully managed, petabyte scale cloud data warehouse that enables you to analyze large datasets using standard SQL. Data warehouse workloads are increasingly being used with mission-critical analytics applications that require the highest levels of resilience and availability.

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5 misconceptions about cloud data warehouses

IBM Big Data Hub

In today’s world, data warehouses are a critical component of any organization’s technology ecosystem. They provide the backbone for a range of use cases such as business intelligence (BI) reporting, dashboarding, and machine-learning (ML)-based predictive analytics, that enable faster decision making and insights.

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5 Factors to Consider When Choosing Board Reporting Software

Jet Global

Reports to your board must be accurate, timely, and thorough. Effective board packets provide a combination of numbers, visual features, and a narrative summary that helps readers better understand the context and nuance surrounding the information in the report. Your selection of the right board reporting software is essential.

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Modernizing the Data Warehouse: Challenges and Benefits

BI-Survey

But what are the right measures to make the data warehouse and BI fit for the future? Can the basic nature of the data be proactively improved? The following insights came from a global BARC survey into the current status of data warehouse modernization. They are opting for cloud data services more frequently.

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The Ultimate Guide to Data Warehouse Automation and Tools

Jet Global

This puts tremendous stress on the teams managing data warehouses, and they struggle to keep up with the demand for increasingly advanced analytic requests. To gather and clean data from all internal systems and gain the business insights needed to make smarter decisions, businesses need to invest in data warehouse automation.

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How to Future-Proof Your Business Systems with a Data Warehouse

Jet Global

Interestingly, you can address many of them very effectively with a data warehouse. There are some very important reasons why you might want to bring some of your historical data into your new system, though. For example, it would be useful to retain the capability of reporting historical sales trends.